2025 Intern: Research Scientist - Human-Centered Generative AI

Introduction
IBM Research Scientists are charting the future of Artificial Intelligence creating breakthroughs in quantum computing discovering how blockchain will reshape the enterprise and much more. Join a team that is dedicated to applying science to some of today’s most complex challenges whether it’s discovering a new way for doctors to help patients teaming with environmentalists to clean up our waterways or enabling retailers to personalize customer service.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Applicants should be PhD & MS students pursuing graduate studies.
• HCI Data Visualization Interaction User Research Interaction Design Visual Design or Experimental Design.
• Basic knowledge in Large Language Models and Generative AI.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Qualitative and quantitative user research and user–centric design.
• Programming skills in Python Java C++/C etc.
  Experience publishing scientific results in technical communities such as CHI IUI DIS CSCW IEEE Vis EuroVis NeurIPS ICML ICLR IJCAI ACL AAAI or similar.
• Machine learning techniques and machine learning toolkits such as PyTorch Tensorflow scikit–learn etc. including programming on GPUs.
• Experience in web application development and frameworks including HTML CSS and JavaScript JQuery React Flask Node.js etc.
• Backend storage technologies such as SQL and Non–SQL databases (Postgres MongoDB Cloudant ElasticSearch etc.)
• Experience in Kubernetes CI/CD tools and operators IBM Cloud and machine learning training pipelines.
• Software engineering practices including agile techniques.
• System building/debugging/testing skills.
• Solving analytical problems using rigorous and quantitative approaches.